Sentence examples for the use of parlance from inspiring English sources

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Other students also relate the use of parlance linked to skin color.

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But its effects reach far deeper: the use of military parlance in organisations may reinforce historically-rooted and implicitly held beliefs that business is no place for a woman.

Each piece will be composed in real time and performed without the use of "palettes," insider parlance for rehearsed and/or notated music.

Prisoners' rights advocates have condemned the use of solitary confinement — in industry parlance, "punitive segregation" — which they say amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

However, the use of these words in everyday parlance belies their hurtful and, yes, racial, meaning when applied to a person who is accused of breaking the unwritten code of racial solidarity.

I am wary of the use of the world "legend" in modern parlance but I think it appropriate here: both actor and character are legends.

With Texas facing huge population growth and constraints on its water supplies, interest in the use of sewage — "reclaimed water," in industry parlance — is growing.

It is also an example, through the use of the term "clip," of the blunt, esoteric parlance of the mob.

(You notice that I am avoiding the use of the word "progressive" even though, in common political jargon, parlance, it would be an apt fit).

That is, real musicians locking together – getting "in the pocket", to use the parlance of the day.

For a man seen as on the left of the Tory party, or "wet" to use the parlance of the time, Clarke is staunch in his praise of Margaret Thatcher.

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